1.
When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classicall
Latine Author ex tempore, and make and speake true Latin in verse and
prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of
Nounes and verbes in the Greeke tongue, then may hee bee admitted
into the College, nor shall any claime admission before such
qualifications. [like
modern SAT scores, such a requirement indicated the level of
education one had received, and achieved. This served a practical
purposes of course, as copies of Scripture and other classics were
also still mostly in Greek.]

2.
Every one shall consider the mayne End of his life and studyes, to
know God and Jesus Christ which is Eternall life. Joh. 17.3.
[Today,
personal
as well as intellectual ignorance of the Biblical Christ abounds
among Harvard students.]

3.
Seeing the Lord giveth wisdome, every one shall seriously by prayer
in secret, seeke wisdome of him. prov. 2.2,3 etc.
[Instead, Harvard today militates against such Biblical wisdom , and
peity. Today,
if any activity is done "in secret," it is fornication (1
out 4 women have an STD).

4.
Every one shall so exercise himselfe in reading the Scriptures twice
a day that they bee ready to give an account of their proficiency
therein, both in theoreticall observations of Language and Logicke,
and in practicall and spirituall truthes as their tutor shall require
according to their severall abilities respectively, seeing the
Entrance of the word giveth light etc. psal. 119, 130.
[The goal here was to produce "able
ministers of the New Testament" (2Cor. 3:6), "rightly
dividing the word of truth" (2Tim. 2:15). Today,
the Bible is almost wholly abandoned as the literal and authoritative
Word of God, and the very deceptions Harvard was founded to prevent
abound therein!]

5.
In the publicke Church assembly they shall carefully shunne all
gestures that shew any contempt or neglect of Gods ordinances and bee
ready to give an account to their tutors of their profiting and to
use the helpes of Storing themselves with knowledge, as their tutours
shall direct them, and all Sophisters and Bachellors (until
themselves make common place) shall publiquely repeate Sermons in the
Hall whenver they are called forth. [Rather
than this being the goal of Harvard, the inculcation of unBibical
worldviews is fostered, and rare is the professor who would dare
declare the Biblical gospel and morality, or the student who could or
would do likewise.]

6.
they shall eschew all prophanation of Gods holy name, attributes,
word, ordinances, and times of worship, and study with Reverence and
love carefully to reteine God and his truth in their minds.
[This is of little to no concern in Harvard today, rather the "faith
once delivered" (Jude v.3) is little esteemed, and if one comes
into Harvard with such faith, he will be sorely challanged to keep
it! Sports, college parties, etc., not Bible studies, are what
students mostly flock to.]

7.
they shall honour as their parents, Magistrates, Elders, tutours and
aged persons, by beeing silent in their presence (except they bee
called on to answer) not gainesaying shewing all those laudable
expressions of honour and Reverence in their presence,
that are in uses as bowing before them standing uncovered or the
like.
[Rather than promoting reverence toward authority, Harvard has joined
the bulk of other "Intititutions of Higher Learning" in
fostering rebellion toward those who represent just authority, under
the guise of protesting injustice, and in such protests reveal their
own dearth of wisdom which usually comes with age.

8.
they shall be slow to speake, and eschew not onely oathes, Lies, and
uncertaine Rumours, but likewise all idle, foolish, bitter scoffing,
frothy wanton words and offensive gestures. [Today,
if one would dare uphold Bible truth and morality at Harvard, such as
reproves the like of irreverend Peter Gomes, he/she will see quickly
how the above law has been abandonded].

STATUTES, LAWS AND
PRIVILEGES, APPROVED AND SANCTIONED BY THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF
HARVARD COLLEGE AT CAMBRIDGE IN NEW ENGLAND: TO WHICH BOTH SCHOLARS
AND STUDENTS, CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION AS WELL AS THOSE ADMITTED, ARE
REQUIRED TO CONFORM, FOR THE PROMOTION OF LEARNING AND GOOD MORALS.

1. Everyone competent to
read Cicero or any other classic author of that kind
extemporaneously, and also to speak and write Latin prose and verse
with tolerable skill and without assistance, and of declining the
Greek nouns and verbs, may expect to be admitted to the College: if
deficient in any of these qualifications, he cannot under any
circumstances be admitted.

2. All persons admitted
to the College must board at the Commons, and must each pay three
pounds to the steward on their entrance, and must discharge all
arrears at the end of every three months; nor shall any
under-graduate of the institution be allowed to board out of the
College, unless by special permission of the President, or his tutor.
If leave to do so shall be granted by either of these officers, the
student shall faithfully observe the usual rules of the Common; but
if any evey shall leave College for private quarters, without
permission of the President or Tutor, he shall not enjoy any
privilege of the institution.

3. While the youth is
here, he will be required to be diligent, and to observe study-hours
with the same strictness as he does those of public recitation.

4.
Every student must regard it as his duty to attend all College
exercises, secular and religious, public and private. While in the
Freshman class, he must speak in public on the stage eight times a
year. Sophisters [sophomores] must be present at a public debate
twice a week. Both bachelors and sophisters must write out an
analysis in some branch of sacred literature: bachelors will discuss
in public philosophical questions once a fortnight, under the
superintendence of the President: in the President's absence, the two
senior tutors will act as a moderator by turns.

5. No one must, under
any pretext, be found in the society of any depraved or dissolute
person.

6.
No one in the lower class shall leave town without express permission
from the President or tutors: nor shall any student, to whatever
class he may belong, visit any shop or tavern, to eat and drink,
unless invited by a parent, guardian, step-parent, or some such
relative.

7. No student shall buy,
sell or exchange any thing without the approval of his parents,
guardians or tutors. Whoever shall violate this rule, shall be fined
by the President or tutor, according to the magnitude of the offense.

8. All students must
refrain from wearing rich and showy clothing, nor must anyone go out
of the college yard, unless in his gown, coat, or cloak.

9. Every under-graduate
shall be called by his surname only, unless he is a commoner, or the
oldest son of a gentleman, or the child of a noble house.

10. Every commoner shall
pay five pounds for the perpetual use of the college, before
admission.

11. Every scholar in the
lower class shall pay his tutor two pounds a year; unless he be a
commoner, when he shall pay three pounds a year.

12. No person in a
higher class, Tutors and Fellows of the college excepted, shall be
allowed to force a freshman or junior to go on errands or do other
services, by blows, threats or language of any kind. And any
undergraduate who violates this rule, shall be punished by bodily
chastisement, expulsion, or such other mode as shall seem adviseable
to the President and Fellows.

13. Students of all
grades are to abstain from dice, cards and every species of gaming
for money, under penalty, in the case of a graduate, of twenty
shillings for each offense; and, if the offender is an undergraduate,
he shall be liable to punishment, at the discretion of the President
or tutor shall assign.

14. If any student is
absent from prayers, or recitation, unless necessarily detained, or
by permission of the President or tutor, he shall be liable to an
admonition; and if he commit the offence more than once in a week, to
such other punishment as the President or tutor shall assign.

15. No student shall
be absent from his studies or stated exercises for any reason,
(unless it is first made known to the President or tutor, and by them
approved) with the exception of the half-hour allowed for lunch, and
half-hour for dinner and also for supper, until nine o'clock.

16. If any student
shall, either through wilfulness or negligence, violate any law of
God or of this college, after being twice admonished, he shall suffer
severe punishment, at the discretion of the President or his tutor.
But in high-handed offences, no such modified forms of punishment
need be expected.

17. Every student who,
on trial, shall be able to translate from the original Latin text,
and logically to explain the Holy Scriptures, both of the Old and New
Testament, and shall also be thoroughly acquainted with the
principles of natural and moral philosophy, and shall be blameless in
life and character, and approved at public examination by the
President and the Fellows of the College, may receive the first
degree. Otherwise, no one shall be admitted to the first degree in
Arts, unless at the end of three years and ten months from the time
of his admission.

18.
Every scholar who has maintained a good standing, and exhibited a
written synopsis of logic, natural and moral philosophy, arithmetic
and astronomy, and shall be prepared to defend a proposition or
thesis; shall also be versed in the original languages, as aforesaid:
and who carries with him a reputation for upright character and
diligence in study, and shall pass successfully a public examination,
shall be admitted to the second, or Master's degree.

Read these carefully,
and ask thyself, O student, if thou couldest graduate today based
these noble standards (in bold)? But even far more critically and
surely, know that thou hast also sinned and fallen short of the
kingdom of God, and that no soul may escape Hell nor gain Heaven
based upon their own merits. THEREFORE humble thyself under the
Mighty Hand of God as an unworthy and lost sinner, and beseech the
Lord for mercy, that upon the shed sinless blood and righteousness of
His dearly Beloved Son, Jesus the Christ (who did die for thee and
rose again), thou mayest be pardoned and accepted of Him. And that
having received His Spirit thereby thou mayest live for Him from this
day forward, and not for thyself nor after that which the world
lusteth, but after that which thy Lord esteemeth. Be therefore
baptized under water in identification with thy Lord and so walk in
newness of life, that thy life may be one that giveth unto Him glory,
and declareth that thou belongeth unto Him, and that thou shalt sing
His praises in the hereafter (as unworthy as thou be without Christ).
And that thou seek the lost (as ye once were), that those of thy
influence might also escape their just and eternal damnation, and be
turned from their sins to obedience to our Lord, the gracious
Redeemer and mighty Judge of all mankind.